Surviving An Economic Collapse: What to Prepare Now

in the first part of this two-part video series we discuss signs will look for that could be a precursor to an economic collapse warning signs like civil unrest unemployment cost increases homelessness and housing affordability food shortages and more are acceler and growing in magnitude they could quickly be approaching a Tipping Point Nations well they rise and fall they seem invincible and Immortal when they are riding High yet they may hide rotting core Noah country is eternal no economy is Invincible an economic collapse is not confined to a small area It is Well a global crisis

suppose the economy of one major Nation Falls in that case the fragile connections it has between importing and exporting countries dry up and the economic drought can spread around the globe leading to the failure of more economies in this video we will examine the fundamentals of what you need to survive the lengthy collapse I can't cover every essential in one video so I hope to give you the basics here to get you moving in the right direction when the House of Cards collapses will you be prepared and ready please consider subscribing to our newsletter by

clicking on the link in the description and comment section below if you enjoy this video please subscribe and click the like button to help the channel grow food easily the essential prep in your inventory is food when shortage is hit nothing will be more valuable than food the failure of the food supply chain and the Grower's ability to get their product to stores manufacturers and restaurants will plunge Millions into instant hunger and Desperation the average American eats out about four or five times per week by conservative estimates this results in dependence upon prepared food sources

and a decrease in food on hand in kitchen cabinets and refrigerators especially the non- perishable kinds of foods almost 50% of Americans do not have emergency supplies to turn to when the food supply chain is severed those that do typically only have a standard 72-hour kit or they're thinking the cans of soup and the bag of rice they have in their cabinets but never touch will get them through for a short duration disaster with the Swift recovery it probably will that 72-hour kit could last you a week if you stretch it out and combine it

with your drawer of ketchup packets and restaurant hot sauces you could run at a caloric deficit for about a week but then what as you prepare for a prolonged economic collapse think of food in three ways sustenance time and as a commodity first you need enough to sustain yourself while you will be scaling back your caloric consumption as your current diet is probably too calorically rich to begin with your first way to think of food is calories and nutrition do you have enough calories and nutrition for you your family and your animals 72 hours worth

will get you through many natural disasters because they can be stretch ration and you can even run out of caloric deficit for a week or two that buys you sufficient enough time to make it through many natural natural disasters with a swift recovery but a nation's economic collapse is different the uncertainty chaos and implosion of food supply chains will leave most of the population dependent upon and fighting over whatever government relief efforts materialize to see what that looks like you only need to see the relief trucks overwhelmed and riots for food and water in any

third world country that's not a position you want to be in if you want to survive so make sure you have the calories and nutrition you need to sustain you and yours for 3 days then build it slowly to 3 weeks then 3 months then a year I have other videos on this channel where I break down how to build of one year of food storage on my website there are spreadsheets you can download to help you work towards this goal I'll put a link in the comments below because once you have the calories stored

for a year or more you also need to consider the shelf life and duration you can likely stretch your supply out if you only know how to forage hunt or fish and there are periods where you can safely do this you'll need to devel V those skills now which I'll talk about later however here I want you to consider the duration of an economic collapse disaster the Great Depression lasted about a decade very few of us can store up that amount of food and as I said you'll probably build a stretch and supplement your supplies

even with the increased competition for resources when others are fighting over the last Bean or last grain of rice at the store you could be buying up the sunflower seeds for planting or harvesting broadleaf plantain and dandelion from the wild think of food as a resource you will need to stretch out and resupply outside traditional ways when you stock your shelves now in preparation for a possible economic collapse do it with an eye toward the longest shelf life possible freeze dried foods like vegetables and fruits they can provide you with vital nutrients for several decades

when the store aisles are Barren and farmers are no longer planting or harvesting plus they do retain their nutritional value taste and can last an incredibly long time a soup can for the sake of comparison is great to have in your inventory but it will only last for 2 to 5 years and takes up considerable more space 12 O of dried vegetable soup mix yields approximately 28 o of soup when rehydrated the difference is noticeable when you consider that 28 o of freeze-dried food can take up 1 cans worth of space and weigh 12 O

versus the equivalent 17 cans of soup which take up 17 times more space and weigh in 13 or more pounds make shelf life a consider ation calories time the amount of space required and portability are all considerations you should also consider replenishable food sources can you raise fish or chickens high protein sources like fish and eggs will sustain you longer into an economic collapse can you grow or Sprout anything everyday spent growing anything is another mouthful of food you probably can't store the decade of food you would need to eat every day through the worst

of economic collapses so consider how you might replenish your food source resources and begin to develop those skills cultivate your knowledge on how to feed yourself outside of the food supply systems you currently rely upon Beyond those considerations though you have to begin to view food as a commodity for exchange food has portability high value density shelf life scarcity usability and the essentialness factors that as with any commodity will determine its value and level of demand if you need a new pair of shoes and currency is worthless somebody will trade for 9 o of butter

powder before they accept $1,000 of worthless money when the government is defunct especially when you tell them that rehydrated it will equal two sticks of butter they'll be begging you to make the trade as they think of all the things they could do with butter they haven't had in weeks or months food was one of the original currencies and it will be again foods that will be the highest values as Commodities will be seeds especially those that will germinate and grow and not just be eaten other highly value Commodities will be salt instant coffee freeze

dry and dehydrated Foods bullion cubes tea alcohol sugar and honey and spices these are also relatively inexpensive right now can be stored in large amounts for an incredibly long time and will be the first items to pleet It Off the Shelf once a prolonged disaster like an economic collapse occurs you should be adding a little of at least one of these to your inventory each payday until you have what seems like ridiculous amount if nothing ever happens and you find yourself 10 years from now with 40 lbs of sugar you will have only been out

of $20 after a collapse though those 90 cups of sugar will be worth more than 90 ounces of gold to you I have dedicated so much time here to food because it is hands down the most precious resource you will have it will be the first resource to fell and it will be the first resource coveted and depleted but there are others water when the utilities fell so too will the Municipal Water Systems after an economic collapse you can't rely upon government and non-government entities to deliver water bottles to your community as with food you

need to make sure that you have stored up at least 72 hours worth of water to start then make it into a 3 we Supply space permits make that into a 3 Monon supply for a family of four that's 1,000 gallons and that just isn't realistically possible for most people the 4,380 gallons of water a family or four minimally need a year is also not a realistic option for most so in addition to the max maimum amount of water you can store you'll have to turn to alternate resources you can deploy in an apartment with

a balcony a precipitation collection system you could even rig a system on the exterior window your gutters on your house can be sent to drain in a collection system a 15x3 ft residential pool will hold about 13,500 gallons of water for you if you know how to treat it and purify it for drinking now versus later many will turn with empty containers to Municipal lakes ponds and high hydrants and many will make themselves sick or further damage the supply systems and levels even if you're sitting on an abundance of stored water you have to have

the means and to know how to replenish treat filter distill or render safe to drink of the water think of your stored water from the physics perspective of potential energy it isn't in use now but it will only last for so long when it is a mini sawer live straw berky filtration system a Kelly Kettle for Rapid boiling a hand pump to tap irrigation lines or even a homemade charcoal sand and rock filtration system will mean the difference between dehydration possibly leading to desperation and death or sustain yourself enough to get you through a prolonged

economic collapse disaster water will be the most precious resource in commodity truth be told but you're already in Dire Straits if you have to trade water for anything you will want to hold on to it as much as you can make sure you have a stored Supply to last you as long as you can make sure you have the means of collecting and and acquiring more even if you have an abundance make sure you can treat thousands and thousands of gallons of it make sure you have the skills and knowledge you need to protect acquire

treat and purify this most essential of resources for as long as you can shelter if you bought your home in the last 15 years it's not likely that you actually own it the bank does if it isn't paid for entirely well it isn't yours if you're a renter and 35% of all homes in America are rentals there are 140 million apartment housing units in America your shelter security is even less after an economic collapse you may be forced out of your shelter if you aren't hundreds of people in your surrounding Community might be many homes

built for a family four will now house eight or more people as family and friends come together this increases not decreases competitiveness for resources when a house of eight is sending four people to get a supply you can't afford to send one person from your home you won't get any of that Supply there are three factors when considering your shelter security stability and Mobility if you live in an apartment your ability to step Outdoors may be hampered for an extended period while you may be temporarily secure locked away in your tiny one door and one

window apartment your access to replenished resources is hampered if you live in the suburbs or excerpts your security may not be good either unless you've hardened off your perimeter and entry points if you live a more Ru setting you're very secure because of a smaller population density but less so when a migratory band of 100 people or more descend upon your neck of the woods Creek fruit trees Garden or Fields how would you be able to defend that much land by yourself when you consider your security consider how long you can safely stay locked into

your dwelling and how long you can protect it from people fires martial law and natural disasters that might also occur being forced out of your shelter is always a probability no matter how secure you feel factor that in as you evaluate your shelter situation in preparation for an economic collapse after security also consider the stability of your shelter situation as I said if you're an apartment or condo dweller as millions are you probably won't be able to stay put forever as you simply can't store and secure all the resources you would need on land you

don't own many people have already realized this after the economic downturn that the shutdowns of 2020 cause chronic homelessness increased by 15% between 2019 and 2020 there was a 7% increase among individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness marking the first time more individuals that is people living without families living on shelter than in a shelter those are already dramatic increases in more vulnerable populations but they would also pel when compared to the numbers and the Fallout of a nation's economic collapse the Great Depression gave rise to massive waves of migrants work camps and government resettlement programs that

sought through relocate struggling urban and rural families to communities plan by the federal government the then resettlement Administration with its four divisions of rural Rehabilitation rural resettlement land utilization and Suburban resettlement could happen again even if you are ryly located with abundant resources the government could claim imminent domain over what you have for the people's good if the government implements martial law as could happen from any Rising civil and arrest a state of emergency Mercy could be declared executive orders 10998 12656 12919 and 13603 all allow the government to come in and take your food

and water preps and resources for redistribution or reallocation so genuinely consider how stable your shelter is in a complete Financial meltdown if you're forced out you'll also need to have considered the third aspect of shelter Mobility I always see comments about people who cannot bug out if necessary for health reasons I also know people who staunchly claim they will defend what they have to their last drop of blood when an army shows up at your door to seize your supplies or force you to relocate your chances of survival well they just drop to zero leaving

your shelter May one day be a necessary move on your part accepting this means that you need to take as much as you can with you to a safer area consider how you will do that do you have a sleeping bag portable shelter tent or even a tarp to make a makeshift shelter if you were Force out into the elements do you have a mobile shelter of any kind even if that's a vehicle with a bit of fuel left in it then do you have another location to go to do you have a rur or

Wilderness Area off the beaten path to retreat to do you have the skills and tools you need to survive there do you have family or friends you can band together with to form a makeshift Community it is much easier to steamroll over an individual than for a faltering government to bully a banded together Community even if you claim you aren't mobile or aren't budgeting you need to develop a plan to have at least one means of Escape you need to have at least one location to retreat away to you need to maintain some type of

shelter for yourself it's helpful if your plan is in concert with something else too as I said your odds of survival increase when you are part of a like-minded group in a post- recovery era in the United States where the government police and military lose total control of some areas expect citizens to band together in their own makeshift militias laws in the books will be primarily ignored out of ignorance of them rights and protections are relinquished that isn't to say that they won't one day return but you shouldn't expect them to be fully restored even

in the recovery phase of a nation's collapse the biggest and strongest shelter you can build is the shelter of community skills and knowledge communities survive because multiple people have a broad range of skills and knowledge not just because they have more manpower and muscle you need to be that person with skills and knowledge in a post economic collapse world if your day job now disappears what will you do what other things do you know can you sew or knit cook maintain and fix equipment hunt fish grow food Forge no medicine and first aid know how

to brew or distill know how to ferment and preserve Foods what skills and knowledge do you bring to you or your community's table most a jobs don't translate into usable occupations in a post-economic collapse Nation people aren't scrambling for resumé writers cashiers bartenders waitresses SS of Associates clerks bookkeepers truck drivers or software developers in a post-economic collapse Society so it's great you have a job now what else can you do I'll post a link in the cards above discussing your skills you can develop now that will serve you well in a collapse economy your skills

and knowledge need first to serve yourself if you know a skill that will bring resources to your table your chances of survival well they just went up if you have skills and knowledge that create an abundance of anything for you you can translate these into tradable Commodities also unlike your hundreds of pounds of food and water nobody can take skills and knowledge from you and you can weightlessly take them wherever you go set a goal to learn one new thing even if you don't see any immediate applicability in your everyday life or you only try

it once learn a new knot make sauerkraut for the first time read how to forge and identify edible plants learn how to build a fire pit or smoker learn something new and you instantly increase your odds of survival put that new knowledge into practice even once and you've cultivated the skill through the application of practice instead of being frozen and confused when seemingly insurmountable problems come your way you will be more likely to figure out a way through them or around them if you only end up more confident and more skillful and nothing bad ever

happens in the world which isn't likely you still have lived a richer in Fuller life think of skill and knowledge acquisition as also building your mental stability and confidence the more you know and the more skills you can put into practice the more you can bear yourself in the work of surviving and remain mentally stable enough to we the absolutely horrific effects of the collapsing world around you skills and knowledge make you calm level-headed and more capable of surviving as you seek to gain skills and knowledge you will also find like-minded people as you join

groups or take an extra Community class or attend a free Workshop you will find people whom you will be able to rely upon on after a massive economic failure as you become stronger you are also beginning to build your own Community your own Mutual assistance group as your skills and knowledge increase so too will your network you have much to gain from seeking Knowledge and Skills and you have absolutely nothing to lose when a nation collapses it tends to break in very specific ways the Tells of how people survive and what they did to make

it through it provides us with a clear path to follow to enhance our own ability to survive as dismal and hopeless as currency collapse unemployment homelessness and the rest of the aspect of a nation's economic collapse might be there are ways you can survive and even Thrive comparatively to others the reality is that most people even those claiming to be prepared are not ready for what it will take mentally and physically to survive the challenges of a disaster that can last for years well I couldn't possibly address everything you will need every decision you will

be forced to make when those days days and years come I can provide you with the basics of what you will need to survive consider your food Water Shelter skills and knowledge as the tint poles you'll need and start building upon those now get those in line now calculate and plug in Solutions today to strengthen your odds of survival in the future prepping for a non-natural disaster like a massive economic collapse is different than prepping for natural disasters you might easily be able to make it through your typical short duration natural disaster with your preps

on hand but a massive economic collapse will require more than what's on your shelves you'll need those tin pole things I referenced in this video but you'll also need to begin building some form of network you'll need some Plan B you'll need to think about your home now but also your future possibilities a disaster like a nation's collapse has some type of eventual return to stability even if the major players change faces as they will often do focus on these primary things to ensure your future stability I'm sure you agree that there are many aspects

of surviving a collapse of this magnitude personal defense electricity a means to cook and create fire and so much more go into your complete survival picture but hopefully this is enough to give you a framework to start from what do you think is there an essential I should have considered in the mix that I put forth here let us know in the comments below what you think will get you through a disaster of that magnitude our viewers are also such a great resource of Knowledge and Skills and information that we can all learn from so

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